(Must be) a Simple, But Uncommon Problem

[dim2005]

I'm desperately looking for a way to "decompile" a video, making a slideshow of still images.

My guess was that, to get best results, I should extract only KEYFRAMES and then choose the best shots and discard the rest.

After 10 days of research, I'm where I was in the beginning(

Vdub can only save ALL the frames, overflowing my HDD and making a zillion of stills, impossible to work with (the file system becomes very slow with 0.7 million files in one folder)

I tried Adobe Premiere, different tools, converters, frameservers with scripts...

I even tried a macro recorder to make
1. Vdub go to a next keyframe
2. copy frame to clipboard
3. switch to Paint
4. paste the image
5. save the file
6. copy the file to a file with a unique name
7. repeat the sequence N times
only to find that there are no good macro recorders/players these days...

SOMEBODY tell me, how to get it done!....

the video file format is VCD .dat

keyframes are irregular: 1/15 mostly, but 9 or 3...etc sometimes

I'd like to get frames in .bmp (lossless)...

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[setarip_old]

Vdub can only save ALL the frames
Naah ;>}

From the "Video" dropdown menu, click on "Framerate" and under "Framerate Decimation", choose "Decimate by" and enter the desired number of frames you'd like to skip between "captured" frames...

[CWR03]

You can install ffdshow, then under its settings you can enable "Grab." When you play a video or a portion from which you want frames, they're stored in the predetermined directory.